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We felt panicky. Spouting long tirades about their loyalty to the Emperor, their hatred of Perennis and their eagerness to foil one and save the other, our irresponsible frontier centurions let their men and us loiter southward through Cisalpine Gaul and Umbria as they had loitered on the other side of the Alps, seldom marching more than ten miles a day.
Germans are assiduous students of Shakespeare, but have seemingly overlooked the comedy: Much ado about Nothing. Ireland is another text for long and windy sermons of German hate, but the conclusion of one of these tirades will suffice to show Germany's real motive.
He goes to Mass on the feast days once in a while. But mamma's Lutheran." "The Catholics are trying to get control of the schools," observed McTeague, suddenly remembering one of Marcus's political tirades. "That's what cousin Mark says. We are going to send the twins to the kindergarten next month." "What's the kindergarten?"
It is a confused and patchwork philosophy, drawn, consciously or unconsciously, from many quarters from the old cosmopolitan tradition of German culture, dating from Goethe and Leasing; from the brave and arrogant claims of Fichte and the prophets and poets of the Napoleonic era; from the far-reaching influence of Hegel and his idealisation of the Prussian State; from the reaction to "realism" in politics after 1848; from the prestige of Bismarck and the deep impression made by the apparent success of his methods and principles; from the gifted Prussian historians, Treitschke and Sybel, who set their own interpretation upon Bismarck's work and imprinted it, by speech and pen, upon the mind of the German nation; and from a hasty interpretation of the theories of writers like Nietzsche and Thomas Carlyle, with their exaltation of "heroes" and "supermen," their encouragements to "live dangerously," their admiration for will-power as against reason and feeling, and their tirades against legal shams, "ballot-box democracy," and flabby humanitarianism.
But I never do clean them, for after all he is more stupid than wicked, poor man: I have not therefore the sad courage to make him wretched." "Let us return to our beetle what will his tirades about its antiquity advance me?" "Oh! one begins about a beetle, but one ends Heaven knows where." Riviere profited by this advice. He even improved on it. In due course he threw himself into Aubertin's way.
I remember, upon one occasion, pending the debate upon the Missouri question, and when Mr. Randolph was in the habit of almost daily addressing the house, that a Mr. Beecher, of Ohio, who was very impatient with Randolph's tirades, would, in the lengthy pauses made by him, rise from his place, and move the previous question. The Speaker would reply: "The member from Virginia has the floor."
Ere he could make up his mind whether to believe his suit had been acceptable or no, Fergus re-entered the apartment. 'What, a la mort, Waverley? he cried. 'Come down with me to the court, and you shall see a sight worth all the tirades of your romances.
Desnoyers was accustomed to humor Robert's tirades against his fellow citizens because the man had always humored his whimseys about the incessant rearrangement of his furniture. In the luxurious apartment in the avenue Victor Hugo the carpenter would sing La Internacional while using hammer and saw, and his employer would overlook his audacity of speech because of the cheapness of his work.
He found it difficult to tolerate the Vermonter in these days with his continued tirades against "The epidemic of insanity sweeping over the South," as Cobb would invariably put it.
My ears fairly tingled with anger at the harshness of the orders, but I stuck to the work, smothering my rage at being berated while doing my very best. As the day went on I realized that the man was not angry; he had merely fallen into that way of talking. The sailors paid slight heed to what he said. Before night the fellow seemed to let up on me, while increasing his tirades at the regular men.
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